Mild winter weather creates ideal conditions for these jelly-like creatures that travel by wind and wash ashore in spring.

Building close partnerships with Pacific Island countries could help Washington prevent such an outcome, if U.S. leadership were interested in doing that. Instead, the United States is harming ...

Maria Cantwell (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and senior member of the Senate Finance Committee, joined her colleagues in announcing the ...

Vanuatu, site of a major U.S. naval base in the Pacific War, was also a vital venue for China's "undercover infrastructures," ...

Fisheries scientists who were fired by the Trump administration say they've been living in limbo as their work is sidelined.

Coral reefs are seen at Palmyra Atoll, part of the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine ... which covers some 490,000 square miles of open ocean, coral reef and island habitats. Located south and ...

A strong 6.3 earthquake off Ecuador’s Pacific coast has shaken the northern part of the country Friday, with some initial reports of some damages to houses ...

It departed Naval Base Kitsap in Bremerton, Washington, for a scheduled Western Pacific Ocean deployment on March 21. USS George Washington: Yokosuka, Japan The George Washington remained at the ...

Despite the size and importance of the Indian Ocean, American strategists have often treated it as a backwater. It’s true ...

The Washington Post noted that President Barack ... Heritage Marine National Monument — an area of the central Pacific Ocean southwest of Hawaii that is twice the size of Texas — was closed ...